Two times I see the reaction that most people expect getting a email when someone is sending them a PM. This is disabled from the beginning, but can be enabled in the settings.Go to "Board preferences"->"edit notification options"->"Someone sends you a private message" and enable the email option. Then you get an email when someone texted you. Hope that helps.

Maybe it would be possible to enable that feature for everyone (all new accounts) so it is enabled from the account creation and can be turned of in the settings.